
Katharina Streit
Postdoctoral Fellow
RG »Archaeology of the Levant«
Contact
Email: katharina.streit(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581-6107
Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied Archaeology and Anthropology (Zwischenprüfung University of Freiburg, 2006, BA University of Oxford 2009) and Near Eastern Archaeology (MA, 2009, PhD, 2012 Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Postdoctoral studies at Martin Buber Society of Fellows at Hebrew University from 2016 to 2020. Directed excavations at the Chalcolithic site of Ein el-Jarba, Israel (2013–2016). She is currently member of the START project, »Tracing Transformations in the southern Levant from collapse to consolidation in the mid-second millennium BC« and co-directs excavations at Tel Lachish (since 2017).
Research Projects
- »Tracing Transformations in the southern Levant from collapse to consolidation in the mid-second millennium BC«
- »Culture of Defeat: Political, Social-Demographic, Economic, and Cultural Responses to Conquest Events in the Iron Age Southern Levant«
Research interests
- Southern Levant from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
- Transregional interactions
- Application of scientific methods in archaeology
Publications
Journal Publication (27)
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Wimmer, Stefan Jakob; Webster, Lyndelle; Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (2023) A New Hieratic Ostracon from Lachish. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Bd. 150 (1), S. 146-156.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2023) Lachish in the Bronze and Iron Ages. A Reply to Garfinkel et al. 2021 and Comments on Current Discussions. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Bd. 138 (2), S. 242-253.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2022) Lachish in the Bronze and Iron Ages. A Reply to Garfinkel et al. 2021 and Comments on Current Discussions. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Bd. 138, S. 242-253.RIS ENW BIB
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Nicolì, Marco; Riehl, Simone; Webster, Lyndelle; Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (online: 2022) Agricultural Resources in the Bronze Age City of Tel Lachish. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (2022) Tel Lachish (Tel Lakhish). Preliminary Report. Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Bd. 134.Website RIS ENW BIB
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Höflmayer, Felix; Misgav, Haggai; Webster, Lyndelle; Streit, Katharina (2021) Early Alphabetic Writing in the Ancient Near East: The ‘Missing Link’ from Tel Lachish. Antiquity, Bd. 95 (381), S. 705-719.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Vermeersch, Shyama; Riehl, Simone; Starkovich, Britt M.; Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (2021) Animal Husbandry from the Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age in the Shephelah – Faunal Remains from the New Excavations at Lachish. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Bd. 13, S. 38.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Carter, Tristan; Campeau, Kathryn; Streit, Katharina (2020) Transregional Perspectives: Characterising Obsidian Consumption at Early Chalcolithic Ein el-Jarba (N. Israel). Journal of Field Archaeology, Bd. 45 (4), S. 249-269.RIS ENW BIB
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Webster, Lyndelle; Streit, Katharina; Dee, Michael W.; Hajdas, Irka; Höflmayer, Felix (2019) New Radiocarbon-Based Assessment Supports the Prominence of Tel Lachish during the LB IB-IIA. Radiocarbon, Bd. 61 (6), S. 1711-1727.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2019) Archaeological Evidence for the Egyptian Presence in the Southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age – A Reappraisal. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 21, S. 68-57.RIS ENW BIB
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Webster, Lyndelle; Streit, Katharina; Dee, Michael W.; Hajdas, Irka; Höflmayer, Felix (2019) Identifying the Lachish of Papyrus Hermitage 1116A Verso and the Amarna Letters: Implications of New Radiocarbon Dating. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 21, S. 88-99.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Webster, Lyndelle; Becker, Vanessa; Jeske, Ann-Kathrin; Misgav, Hadas et al. [..] (2018) Between Destruction and Diplomacy in Canaan: The Austro-Israeli Expedition to Tel Lachish. Near Eastern Archaeology, Bd. 81 (4), S. 259-268.DOI RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2018) Beyond the Image. Composite Female Figurines and Gender Relations of the Near East in the Mid-Sixth Mill. Cal. B.C.E. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Bd. 134 (1), S. 1-27.RIS ENW BIB
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Carter, Tristan; Batist, Zachary; Campeau, Kathryn; Garfinkel, Yosef; Streit, Katharina (2017) Investigating Pottery Neolithic Socio-Economic “Regression” in the Southern Levant. Characterising Obsidian Consumption at Sha'ar Hagolan (N. Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Bd. 15, S. 305—317.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2017) A Maximalist Interpretation of the Execration Texts – Archaeological and Historical Implications of a High Chronology. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Bd. 13, S. 59—69.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2017) Transregional Interactions between Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 6th Millennium cal BC. Ägypten & Levante, Bd. 27, S. 403-429.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (2016) Archaeomagnetism, Radiocarbon Dating, and the Problem of Circular Reasoning in Chronological Debates: A Reply to Stillinger et al. 2016. Near Eastern Archaeology, Bd. 79 (4), S. 233-235.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2016) The 6th Millennium Cal. BCE Wadi Rabah Culture: Further Excavations at Ein el-Jarba in the Jezreel Valley, Israel (2015–2016). Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Bd. 34, S. 11—38.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2016) The Near East before Borders: Recent Excavations at Ein el-Jarba (Israel) and the Cultural Interactions of the 6th millennium cal B.C.E. Near Eastern Archaeology, Bd. 79 (4), S. 236-245.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2015) Exploring the Wadi Rabah Culture of the 6th Millennium cal BC: Renewed Excavations at Ein el-Jarba in the Jezreel Valley, Israel (2013-2015). Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Bd. 33, S. 11-34.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2015) Interregional Contacts in the 6th Millennium BC: Tracing Foreign Influences in the Holemouth Jar from Ein el-Jarba, Israel. Levant, Bd. 47 (3), S. 255-266.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Garfinkel, Yosef (2015) A Specialized Ceramic Assemblage for Water Pulling: The Middle Chalcolithic Well of Tel Tsaf. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research, Bd. 374, S. 61-73.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Garfinkel, Yosef (2015) Tel Tsaf and the Impact of the Ubaid Culture on the Southern Levant: Interpreting the Radiocarbon Evidence. Radiocarbon, Bd. 57 (5), S. 865-880.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Garfinkel, Yosef (2015) Horned Figurines Made of Stone from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods and the Domestication of Sheep and Goat. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Bd. 147 (1), S. 39-48.RIS ENW BIB
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Garfinkel, Yosef; Streit, Katharina; Ganor, Saar; Reimer, Paula J. (2015) King David’s City at Khirbet Qeiyafa: Results of the Second Radiocarbon Dating Project. Radiocarbon, Bd. 57 (5), S. 881-890.RIS ENW BIB
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Garfinkel, Yosef; Streit, Katharina; Ganor, Saar (2012) State Formation in Judah: Biblical Tradition, Modern Historical Theories and Radiometric Datings from Khirbet Qeiyafa. Radiocarbon, Bd. 54 (3-4), S. 359-369.RIS ENW BIB
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Brather, Sebastian; Gütermann, Sven; Künzie, Melanie; Reinecke, Jens; Schmid, Christiane et al. [..] (2009) Grabausstattung und Lebensalter im frühen Mittelalter - Soziale Rollen im Spiegel der Bestattungen. Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 30, S. 273-378.RIS ENW BIB
Book/Monograph (1)
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Streit, Katharina (2020) The Ancient Near East in Transregional Perspective. Material Culture and Exchange between Mesopotamia, the Levant and Lower Egypt from 5800 to 5200 calBC. In Reihe: Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant, hrsg. v. Budka, Julia; Höflmayer, Felix; Horejs, Barbara; Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.RIS ENW BIB
Contribution in Collection (10)
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Streit, Katharina (2022) Disentangling a Confusion of Tongues - On Chronological Schemes, Terminologies, and Radiocarbon Dating in the Eastern Mediterranean. In: Davidovich, Uri; Yahalom-Mack, Naama; Matskevich, Sveta (Hrsg.), Material, Method, and Meaning. Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in Honor of Ilan Sharon; Münster: Zaphon, S. 55–65.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix (2022) Die assyrische Eroberung der Südlevante und Ägyptens. Ein Vergleich textlicher und archäologischer Evidenzen von Niederlage und ihrer Rezeption. In: Wimmer, Stefan Jakob; Zwickel, Wolfgang (Hrsg.), Ägypten und Altes Testament. Fachtagung "40 Jahre ÄAT", München, 6.-7. Dez.; Münster: Zaphon, S. 181-209.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2020) After the Storm: Political, Economic and Socio-Demographic Aspects of the Assyrian Defeat of the Southern Levant. In: Streit, Katharina; Grohmann, Marianne (Hrsg.), Culture of Defeat: Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, S. 261-286.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Grohmann, Marianne (2020) Introduction. In: Streit, Katharina; Grohmann, Marianne (Hrsg.), Culture of Defeat: Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, S. 1-5.RIS ENW BIB
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Mazar, Amihai; Streit, Katharina (2020) Radiometric Dates from Tel Reḥov. In: Mazar, Amihai; Panitz-Cohen, Nava (Hrsg.), Tel Reḥov. A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valley. Volume V. Various Objects and Natural-science Studies; Jerusalem: The Institute of Archaeology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, S. 455–494.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2019) The Stranger on the Mound: Tracing Ethnicity at Tel Lachish during the Late Bronze Age. In: Mynářová, Jana; Kilani, Marwan; Alivernini, Sergio (Hrsg.), The Crossroads III: A Stranger in the House -Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age; Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, S. 355-370.RIS ENW BIB
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Höflmayer, Felix; Streit, Katharina (2019) The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating and Absolute Chronology in the Holy Land: A Social Archaeological Perspective. In: Yasur-Landau, Assaf; Cline, Eric H.; Rowan, Yorke M. (Hrsg.), The Social Archaeology of the Levant. From Prehistory to the Present; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, S. 573-593.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina; Favis, Rinat; Garfinkel, Yosef (2017) Final Publication of Kaplan’s 1966 Excavation at Ein el-Jarba. In: Gopher, Avi (Hrsg.), Jacob Kaplan’s Excavations of Protohistoric Sites 1950s-1980s; Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns, S. 522-560.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2016) Protohistoric Infant Jar Burials of the Southern Levant in Context: Tracing Cultural Influences in the Late Sixth and Fifth Millennia BCE. In: Ganor, Saar; Kreimerman, Igor; Streit, Katharina; Mumcuoglu, Madeleine (Hrsg.), From Sha'ar Hagolan to Shaaraim: Essays in honor of Prof. Yosef Garfinkel; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, S. 171-185.RIS ENW BIB
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Garfinkel, Yosef; Streit, Katharina (2014) Radiometric dating of the Iron Age City. In: Garfinkel, Yosef; Ganor, Saar; Hasel, Michael (Hrsg.), Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 2. Excavation Report 2009-2013: Stratigraphy and Architecture (Areas B, C, D, E); Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, S. 367-374.RIS ENW BIB
Editorship (2)
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Streit, Katharina; Grohmann, Marianne (Hrsg.) (2020) Culture of Defeat: Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record. In Reihe: The Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East; Piscataway: Gorgias Press.RIS ENW BIB
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Ganor, Saar; Kreimerman, Igor; Streit, Katharina; Mumcuoglu, Madeleine (Hrsg.) (2016) From Sha'ar Hagolan to Shaaraim: Essays in Honor of Prof. Yosef Garfinkel. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.RIS ENW BIB
Book or Essay review (4)
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Streit, Katharina (2022) Review of “Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, by Ido Koch. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 119. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiv + 195 pp. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research 387, S. 227-229.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2021) Review of "The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant. From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE" by Raphael Greenberg. Bibliotheca Orientalis 78, S. 223-225.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2017) Review of ‘Hazor – Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City‘ by A. Ben-Tor. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 378, S. 247-249.RIS ENW BIB
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Streit, Katharina (2016) Review of ‘Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia‘ edited by O.P. Nieuwenhuyse, R. Bernbeck, P.M.M.G. Akkermans, and J. Rogasch. American Journal of Archaeology 120 (3).RIS ENW BIB
Other Publication (1)
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Höflmayer, Felix; Streit, Katharina (2022) Ägyptische Hieroglyphen, die Erfindung des Alphabets und die österreichischen Ausgrabungen am Tel Lachisch. Jerusalem Korrespondenz, Bd. 27, S. 4-7.RIS ENW BIB